Director Corporate Real Estate

POSITION SUMMARY:  The Director, Real Estate, in partnership with Real Estate leadership, manages the tactical, strategic, and transactional oversight of Republic Services owned and leased real estate portfolio. The incumbent will manage relationships with company operations leadership, functional peers and real estate service providers. The Director, Real Estate will develop and advise portfolio strategy, optimization opportunities and implementation plans to ensure alignment with Company business objectives.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop relationship between company operations leadership, external brokers, and internal/external legal teams and functional partners to achieve optimal real estate outcomes.

• Develop real estate portfolio strategy, key performance metrics and business reporting to maximize portfolio efficiency.

• Effectively enhance and refine standards, processes, and procedures within the real estate organization, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with industry best practices.

• Utilize industry sources of market intelligence to optimize the performance of the portfolio through analysis and data-driven insights.

• Establish reporting and analytics strategy to interpret market trends, assess property performance and generate actionable insights.

• Ensure consistent and effective data management of the real estate portfolio system (TANGO).

• Advise real estate team regarding acquisition and site selection, dispositions, leases, easements, licenses, condemnations, etc.

• Collaborates with broker services, organizing seamless coordination of services and activities including engagement documents, pipeline/status reports, and critical project tracking.

• Partners closely with the Legal team on all real estate related contracts to address compliance and mitigate risk.

• Supports staff and field operations with real estate related business cases, securing approvals.

• Coaches and develops a team of professionals to assist in their development and attainment of necessary skills to lift performance. Monitors staff performance and drives performance improvement initiatives and ensures that service levels meet or exceed agreed upon standards.

• Performs other responsibilities and projects as assigned or apparent.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• In depth knowledge of building and developing a real estate team and implementing meaningful process improvements.

• Experience with real estate software (TANGO preferred), and data management and analytics best practices.

• Experience leading a diverse team that manages 400+ active transactions.

• Advanced knowledge of corporate industrial real estate and related financial terms and principles.

• Progressive experience leading teams that work with both Corporate and Operations Management.

• Experience in real estate strategy and exposure to overall Corporate real estate delivery model (acquisition/disposition, construction, facility management).

• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage many priorities.

• Experience working with Corporate Legal teams.

• Experience working with external Corporate real estate brokers.

• Service minded with exceptional relationship development capabilities.

• Excellent communication, organization, and prioritization skills.

• Proficient with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: 

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate industrial real estate, including acquisitions, dispositions, leases, easements, licenses, and condemnations.

• 5+ years of people leadership experience.

Rewarding Compensation and Benefits

Eligible employees can elect to participate in:
• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts. 
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
• Employee discount programs.
• Retirement plan with a generous company match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

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